The pact between the Saudi monarchy and the Wahhabi establishment has been reinterpreted and redesigned during times of transition and crisis. The speed and magnitude of change in Saudi Arabia have accelerated considerably after the consecration of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. To legitimize his ascent, fulfill his absolutist ambitions and face various internal and external challenges,...
GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft pounded over a dozen militant targets in Gaza, the army said Sunday, after Palestinian projectile fire shattered a cease-fire reached just days ago after the worst flare-up since a 2014 war. The latest escalation came hours after thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of a young female volunteer medic killed by...
JEDDAH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) is still carrying out relief activities in Socotra, the cyclone-hit Yemeni island. The Saudi relief organization is working round the clock for the rehabilitation of as many as 950 people affected by the cyclone. These efforts come within the framework of the continuous support being...
Turkey has taken a leading role in condemning Israeli actions in Gaza, which has led to a diplomatic spat with both countries expelling senior diplomats this week. Turkey has called on Muslim nations to stand with Palestinians and to work to stop countries joining the United States in relocating their Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv...
Latest attacks focus attention on continuing failure of Trump’s efforts to stabilise the country. The latest, dreadful suicide bombings in Kabul and Kandahar, which killed more than 50 people on Monday have again focused attention on the continuing failure of American-led efforts to stabilise the country. After 16 years of conflict, critics say, the US is...
Pashtuns are an Iranic ethnic group who mostly live in the region of Pashtun homeland which was divided and distributed with a Duran line border by the #British Empire between #Afghanistan and #Pakistan. As an important minority group in Pakistan, Pashtuns constitute the second-largest ethnic group or about 15% of the population. And in Afghanistan...
When I was 12, Saddam Hussein, vice president of Iraq at the time, carried out a huge purge and officially usurped total power. I was living in Baghdad then, and I developed an intuitive, visceral hatred of the dictator early on. That feeling only intensified and matured as I did. In the late 1990s, I...
यूरोप में इस्लामोफोबिया ने नया रूप इख्तियार कर लिया ” Punish a Muslim day” मनाने की तैयारियां, (मुस्लिमों को मारो) नीचे जो पत्र है यूरोप में तेज़ी से फैलाया जा रहा है #Punish_A_Muslim_Day इंगलैंड में लोगों के घरों में एक letter बाक़ायदा उनके address पर post किया गया. जिसमें वहाँ के रहने वाले ईसाईयों को...
A senior Israeli military official said on Wednesday that the Israeli army is preparing for war on five fronts, in addition to another with Iran. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Aviv Kochavi, said: “Iran is fuelling many terrorist activities in the Middle East”, adding that the Israeli army continues to grow and...
ANKARA: Turkey and Iraq’s central government in Baghdad will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying on Thursday. Cavusoglu’s comments came as Turkey pushed ahead with a cross-border military operation against the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria’s Afrin region. Speaking to...